Person:John Bourie (3)

John Baptist Bourie, Jr. aka So-ne-lan-gish-eah

John Baptist Bourie, Jr. or So-ne-lan-gish-eah received land on the Kansas Potawatomi Reservation since he was Miami^[[#S1|]]. The reason for this grant is not known at this time^S1.

June 5, 1854

In the June 5, 1854 Treaty with the Miami, "Articles of agreement ad convention made and concluded at the city of Washington, this fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between George W. Manypenny, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named delegates representing the Miami tribe of Indians, viz: Nah-we-la-quah, or Big Legs; Me-cat-a-cjin-quah, or Little Doctor; Lan-a-pin-cha, or Jack Hackley; So-ne-lan-gish-eah, or John Bourie; Wan-zop-e-ah; they being thereto duly authorized by said tribe--and Me-shin-go-me-zia, Po-con-ge-ah, Pin-yi-oh-te-mah, Wop-pop-pe-tah, or Bondy, and Keah-cot-woh, or Buffalo, Miami Indians, Residents of the State of Indiana, being present, and assenting, approving, agreeing to, and confirming said articles of agreement and convention.

Article 1

The said Miami Indians hereby cede and convey to the United States, all that certain tract of country set apart and assigned to the said tribe, by the article added by the Senate of the United States, by resolution of the date of February twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, to the Treaty of November twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and denominated among the amendments of the Senate as "Article 12," which was assented to by said Indians, on the fifteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty-one; which tract is designated in said article as 'bounded on the east by the State of Missouri, and on the north by the country of the Weas and Plankeshaws, on the west by the Pottowatomies of Indiana, and on the south by the land assigned to the New York Indians, estimated to contain five hundred thousand acres,' excepting and reserving therefrom seventy thousand acres for their future homes, ad a section of six hundred and fourty acres for school purposes, to be selected and assigned to said tribe as herein provided"

November 15, 1861

In the November 15, 1861 TREATY WITH THE POTAWATOMI, again a Bourie is a signatory on Behalf of the Tribe. This treaty allows the Potawatomi Kansas reservation to be surveyed, the tribe to have a census taken, a railroad to be given right-a-way, and tribe members to receive individual land grants and to benefit from sale of land to the public. By this date, John Baptist Bourie, Sr. has died. He had a Miami Indian wife in his first marriage. They had a son, John B. Bourie, Jr. or So-ne-lan-gish-eah. This reference is most likely that of John B. Bourie, Jr. as directly indicated in the June 5, 1854 treaty above.